"Those Graphics Suck?"

"Those Graphics Suck?"

I have always had a problem with that phrase. How can anyone actually say that in this day and age? Doesn't anybody remember way back when the Super Nintendo and Genesis games first debuted. People the world over were wowed by the "Amazing visuals" of games like Super Mario World and Sonic The Hedgehog.

Fast forward to the days of the Nintendo 64 when The Legend of Zelda The Ocarina of Time was released. The graphics were "The greatest of all time."

Not long after, the Playstation sports games like Madden 97', and NBA Live were released with "The most realistic graphics in any game, period."

Now in the days of the PS2, XBOX, and Gamecube, when video game graphics have reached their highest point, people are still not satisfied! People continuosly say things along the lines of the title of this blog; especially when they are biased against a console. How can someone come out and say that "The PS2's has terrible graphics" after saying that Sonic was "The peak of video game visuals?" No game has "bad graphics." Some video games have graphics that are inferior to others, but their graphics are not "bad."

I just wish that people who say things like that would just think back to the days when the Atari 2600 was king and seeing a shadow on a thrown football was realistic. Why must we fight one another by putting down each others consoles and games. Can't we all just forget about graphics for a moment, and just judge games the way they should be judged, by their gameplay.

No more looking at visuals. No more counting the number of characters on screen. No more trying to find out what's real-time and what's pre-rendered. Just play the game. See how fun it is.

Comments (2)

(O_o) Wow....

That was really good for a first blog. I mean that. You should check out some of our first blogs. Then laugh at how mediocre some of our's were. Also, I agree with you completely, there is absolutely no such thing as &quot;bad graphics&quot;.....except for one thing. Would you have bought your favorite game if it had all the same great gameplay, but Atari 2600 graphics. I can't say that I would.Unfortunately for us non-biased, anti-fanboy gamers, graphics do play a HUGEpart in how good a game is. Sometimes even how fun it is.Take God of War for example. It's not just the moves that make combat fun. It's also how visually rewarding it is to turn those enemies into heaps of bloody flesh. Or maybe World of Warcraft. How fun would it be if you could go anywhere that you could see, but everything was just single-ccolored pixels? Still, good job.

Thanks

Thanks for the comments. As for Atari 2600 on any of the current console or even the handhelds, games like that would deserve to be called crap. I could make better graphics than the Atari 2600 with Flash. Heck, anyone with Windows Paint could make better graphics. I was more talking about games with graphics of this generation that may have Playstation-style graphics. Or games like Metal Slug and 2d fighting games on a whole.

But, I agree with you. Graphics are a big part of games like God of War. I can't imagine seeing single pixels popping out of people, and calling it blood. That's just.....disgusting.